by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
At the beginning of April, the associations “Ensemble contre la peine de mort” and “Solidarité Chine” have summoned the organizer of the anatomic exhibition “Our body, à corps ouvert” which, after Lyon and Marseille, took place in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
A study by the INPES (National Institute for Health Prevention and Education) published in 2007, and called “Les Français et la contraception” (French People and contraception) highlighted the “French paradox”: despite the highest rate of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
French researchers (French Blood Agency, EDS, CNRS, and University of Mediterranée) succeeded, by gene transfer, in modifying genetically a blood group (the Kidd/JK group). To do so, they used cord blood stem cells cultivated in vitro until obtaining erythrocytes....
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
In its 2007 Statement, the French Biomedicine Agency estimates at 176,523 the number of frozen embryos in France for 49,618 couples (at 31st December 2006)1. At this date, only 52.8% of these embryos were subject to “parental project”, or in other words...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
The preservation and collection of cord and placenta are again encouraged: The French National Academy of Medicine adopted on 26th January 2010 a report on cord mesenchymatous stem cells (MSC) and on 19th February 2010 Marie-Thérèse Hermange submitted to the Senate a...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
More than thirty years after the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, studies warn against the risks of in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Medical risks The implantation of several embryos generates a high rate of multiple pregnancies with all the...
